6 Navigate to the Web Application

Now open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8082 where you will see the running Web Application.

Click ‘the +’ sign to add observational and model data.

Select the 'RCMED' tab.

Select the RCMED dataset that you would like to use for your evaluation using the drop-down box e.g. TRMM

Select the dataset parameter that you would like to use e.g. pcp

Click ‘Add Observation’

In the 'Local File' tab, type ‘/’ then your model files in /usr/local/rcmes will show up.

Choose a model file, parse it and click ‘Add Dataset’

After adding model files, your screen should look like below.

Click the working tools icon to the direct left of the Evaluate button for settings. You can choose a metric to calculate and plot, temporal regridding option and add sub-region information (path + filename).

At this stage OCW will automatically detect overlapping domains and time between observations and models.

You can conduct model evaluation using spatial and temporal subsets of the original data. The grey shaded area is the actual evaluation domain selected by a user.

Now click ‘Evaluate’ button. You can see the progress in the terminal windows 1.

Click ‘Results’ on the top of page.

7 The End...

That gives you an overview of installing the target OCW environment, running some simple regional climate modeling analysis and visualizing the results.